We weren't planning on taking our hoover but the packers accidentally packed it with everything else even though I had put it in a had to get to corner and told them not to!

The MAF inspector and I were rather surprised when we found the hoover in the bottom of a box containing Christmas decorations! Unfortunately the hoover was full of pine needles and dust as it hadn't been emptied for a while! The inspector gave me th option of getting it cleaned or handing it over for destruction - as we had already bought another one we took the latter option!

We didn't have time to clean our Dyson, and the movers put it to one side when they delivered our stuff in Auckland saying that it needed to be inspected.

So I stripped and washed it all out that night (releasing a few trapped foxes and cane toads probably), and as I happened to be up early the next day reassembled it while making the tea - only to get a knock at the door at 7.25am (!) and it was the MAF inspector! Who looked at the freshly assembled Dyson and declared it acceptable